President-elect Donald Trump
said Friday that he is asking Congress to investigate how NBC got
its hands on the intelligence community's report on Russian
election-related hacking before he saw it.

"I am asking the chairs of the House and Senate committees
to investigate top secret intelligence shared with NBC prior to
me seeing it," he posted to Twitter.

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On Thursday night, following NBC's on-air report of the
intelligence findings, Trump posted that the news network
received a copy of the document because of "politics."

"How did NBC get "an exclusive look into the top secret
report he (Obama) was presented?" Trump wrote. "Who gave them this report and
why? Politics!"

NBC's Hallie Jackson reported that the intelligence briefing,
presented to President Barack Obama on Thursday, detailed Russian
cyberattacks against the Democratic National Committee, the White
House, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the State Department, and
American companies. Some hacks were successful, while others were
not.

Intelligence officials said in the briefing that the
Russian motive was to disrupt the Democratic process in the
election, and also served as "payback" for the Obama
administration questioning Russian President Vladimir Putin's
legitimacy.

The report tracked Russian cyber-activity to the prior two
presidential elections, as well, according to NBC. It did not
make an assessment on whether Russian hacking affected the
outcome of the 2016 presidential race.

Trump is set to received a briefing from intelligence
officials Friday on the report.

Elsewhere on Thursday, The Washington Post reported that
intelligence officials picked up senior Russian officials
celebrating Trump's victory, and that go-betweens worked to turn
over emails belonging to Democratic operatives and organizations
from hackers to the website WikiLeaks.

"Julian Assange said 'a 14 year old could have hacked
Podesta' - why was DNC so careless?" he wrote. "Also said Russians did not give
him the info!"

WikiLeaks also chimed in Friday, posting that NBC was able
to view the briefing because of "political reasons."

"The Obama admin/CIA is illegally funneling TOP
SECRET//COMINT information to NBC for political reasons before
PEOTUS even gets to read it," the website, infamous for releasing
hacked and leaked documents, posted on Twitter.

Both Republicans and Democrats have called for action against
Russia after the hacking. Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of
South Carolina and John McCain of Arizona have been two of the
loudest voices on that front. After the Obama administration
announced new sanctions on Russia last week, Ryan and Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell released statements that both
criticized Russia and said President Barack Obama had not been
hard enough on the Russian government in previous years.

Russia has repeatedly denied involvement in the election-related
hacks, and Trump has refused to acknowledge that Russia had
involvement in them.

Last week, he said it was time for the US to
move on to "bigger and better" things but he would "nevertheless"
meet with intelligence officials to discuss the hacking. This
past weekend he said he knew things about the hacking that no one
else did and would reveal it Tuesday or Wednesday. He has yet to
provide any further information.

On Tuesday, Trump tweeted: "The 'Intelligence' briefing on
so-called 'Russian hacking' was delayed until Friday, perhaps
more time needed to build a case. Very strange!"

Intelligence officials pushed back on his tweet, saying the
briefing was always supposed to be held Friday.